During the Civil War, Phoebe Pember had come to tend the sick and comfort the dying. but she ended up fighting violent alcoholic patients over control of the medicinal whiskey.
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Edith Cavell: World War I Nurse and Heroine
A fanatically selfless sense of duty drove nurse Edith Cavell to harbor Allied soldiers behind German lines.
Winchester, Virginia: A Town Embattled During America’s Civil War
Winchester, Virginia, saw more of the war than any other place North or South.
Picture of the Day: August 4
The North’s Unsung Sisters of Mercy A cadre of dedicated Northern women from all […]
President John F. Kennedy: Eyewitness Accounts of the Events Surrounding JFK’s Assassination
The events that began unfolding around midday on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, have cast a long and lasting shadow across the intervening 40 years. In a matter of seconds a deadly deed would inflict trauma on the nation and alter the course of American history. It opened a tragedy-filled decade pocked by war, violent domestic unrest and a string of political assassinations.
Book Review: Birth of the American Century: Centennial History of the Spanish-American War (by Ron Ziel) : MH
Birth of the American Century: Centennial History of the Spanish-American War, by Ron Ziel, […]
The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War
With the Ho Chi Minh Trail as his stage, historian John Prados plays out […]
Book Review: The Faces Behind the Names: The Vietnam War (edited by Don Ward) : VN
The Faces Behind the Names: The Vietnam War, edited by Don Ward, The Memorial […]
Book Review: The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War (John Prados) : VN
With the Ho Chi Minh Trail as his stage, historian John Prados plays out […]
Book Review: Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane (Philip Bigler) : VN
Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane, byPhilip Bigler, Vandamere […]